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Speaker 1 (00:04):
NFL Power Rankings is a production of the NFL in
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
So brand new edition of NFL Power Rankings we are
presented by Energizer Long with Eric at home, I am
with you. We go through the top teams in the NFL. Actually,
we're going through all the teams in the NFL. For
complete analysis of all thirty two, check out NFL dot com.
Uric I had asked you, Hey, did you watch the
World Series game before we started recording. He said, no,
Monday night was over. I get home and I immediately
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go to my inbox because I usually get a preview
of what your rankings are going to be, and you
would say, hey, like the game is over. I fell
asleep on the couch and I don't want to get
Tami here. Was that by design?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Though?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Like were you told to sleep on the couch.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It happens more often than I probably should let it happen. Right,
I'll start watching TV. I'll get into something interesting next thing,
and I wake up. It's, you know, quarter to two
in the morning, and I'm thinking I got to be
up in about four hours. Here, this isn't very good,
but the alert for the game came off right when
I woke up, so I didn't realize quite how long
had gone.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We got off the set on Monday Night Football. On
our postgame show, our researcher said, hey, it's in the
tenth inning. It was a long one, I think for
all sports fans. When I was reading our article, by
the way, while the game was going on, I did
notice that you called the rankings semi chalking, and I
think that's maybe the best way to describe really the
top here. Let's go through one through eight, and you
got the Detroit Lions sitting at one, the Colts at two,
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and the Chiefs at three. So no change here. The
Packers move up one spot to the fourth position. Philadelphia Seattle.
We got the Rams at seven and Tampa Bay sitting
at eight. Sitting at that six and two record, I
think we should focus in on the Colts. They feel
like a very, very complete team, and I guess it
shouldn't surprise Well, maybe it surprises some people, but it
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shouldn't surprise us right now, considering how these pieces are
all working together. Are we finally at a point where
we just say, hey, like this is legit? And they
had a real chance to get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, I kind of slow played them a little bit, Mike.
You know, it was just sort of holding back. I
wanted to see a bigger body of work, maybe some
better competition. But I've seen enough to say, hey, if
this team stays relatively intact through the rest of the season,
they are gonna be a problem. Okay, Daniel Jones has
played very well. It didn't have a great first half Sunday,
but eventually receivers came open, and they have so many
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guys they can throw to. And of course the backbone
of that offense too, Jonathan Taylor, and really that offensive
line too. I think we should mention them, Quenton Nelson,
guys like Bernard Raymond Tanner, BORDERLINI getting out on these
runs and these screens and everything. And boy, when you
can take a punt in your territory and the other
team's not going for it, what do you do? You
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hand off to Jonathan Taylor takes at eighty yards and
that's just how explosive. They've been a little worried about
the defense, Mike. I mean, they've given up some yards
this year, there's no doubt, but that pass rush can
cover some of it. And they're always seemingly playing with leads,
which really helps. I think.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I think there's gonna be a really interesting conversation about
how to handle Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson in this offseason.
Got to imagine this team doesn't have much of choice.
They're gonna have to pay Daniel Jones just toased off
of his performance this year, and Jonathan Taylor obviously has
been rolling to number three. Right now, we got a
Kansas City Chief squad that is all of a sudden
looking like one of the most complete teams in the NFL.
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They're one of two squads sitting in the top five
of total offense and defense. I'll tell you who that
other team is a little bit later when we talk
about them. Are you like, we're not worried about that
that O and two start, right Like, we're officially back
with Kansas City being one of the premier teams in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah. The O and two starts certainly had me kind
of pause in a little bit. The loss to Jacksonville.
Everybody was sort of questioning, hey, is this sort of
shades of what we saw last year coming to roost? Right?
All those close games that they won, could have lost
several This one, the Monday night game, I thought was
a really interesting test. The Commanders brought everything they had,
had more energy early. It was a tie game, and
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then what happened in the third quarter The Chiefs turned
their lights out, and Mike again just kind of comparing
it to the last couple of years worth the Chiefs teams.
I know they're different, but the corps the same, Andy Reid,
Patrick Mahomes, Driving, Kelsey all the rest. They now have
the explosiveness to turn your lights out fast. I don't
think they had that as readily available to them the
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last couple of seasons. But now Rashi Rice is in
the lineup, Xavier Worthy healthy, you still have Marquise Brown.
Obviously Kelsey could have a big night. He had the
drop to catch that win Ford interception. You know, those
things happened. But the defense too, has really kind of
turned it on the last few games. So look, they
can play a poor half or so so half, come
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back and beat a team like the Commanders with ease,
and I think that's a pretty good sign of their health.
Right now.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What do you make of this game on Sunday against Buffalo,
Because this is that you know, before the season, you'd
say mussy television. Now that we're in the season, I'm
still saying it's mussy TV.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It is right, And obviously you can kind of throw
the records out a little bit or whoever's playing the
best at the time, given that Buffalo has had a
little bit more success in the regular season meetings. Obviously
Kansas City more in the playoff meetings. So who knows
right final season at high these teams pretty know each
other pretty well. Bill's had a get right game last week,
but this casey defense and what they're doing on offense
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could be tough to stop. Yeah, good to.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
See Buffalo sort of get their minds right. It was
back to back losses by and then they handle business
against the Carolina team that didn't have Bryce Young. But
a win is a win all right, time for future champions.
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at the NFC North odds to win. The Green Bay
Packers sitting at minus one thirty, they are the favorite.
The Detroit Lions not far behind plus one twenty five.
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I think you make an argument Detroit's got one of
the top two or three offenses in the league feel
good about that defense when they're healthy. The Bears had
a four game winning streak that got snapped. They're in
that third position plus twenty two hundred and then a
plus forty five hundred the Minnesota Vikings, who will be
playing JJ McCarthy now that Carson Wentz is no longer healthy,
although I think JJ was ready and he was going
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to get that job back, all right. The Packers sit
at number four right now. You wrote on your article
that's on NFL dot com with regard of these power rankings,
Jordan Love, that's been game that you've seen. I actually
think it's a really positive sign that in a big moment,
you could say, hey, regular season, but it's big when
it's Aaron Rodgers on the other side, like we it's
his primetime game Sunday Night Football. He played his best
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game that you think you might have seen from him.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, I mean I heard a lot of people talking about, oh,
what a great second half he had. I thought he
played a great four quarters, right that he couldn't really
generate the kind of points they wanted early, and we've
seen that from the Packers. Maybe a little bit slower
starting or they have one good drive early and then
kind of stall out, But you know, Love seemed to
get better as the game went on. You found these
plays with Kraft, who missed a chunk of this game
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with injury, but you know he did outstanding. Obviously, Watson
back in the lineup that helps didn't really have much
run game going, but never truly felt threatened. Even when
they were down nineteen to fourteen. It felt like the
momentum was on their side. Some of that you credit
the Green Bay defense. Certainly, some of that you obviously
credit the offense, but you're right as far as big
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moments go, playoff atmosphere. Pittsburgh team that's had some success
this year, the specter of Rogers, whatever you want to say,
Jordan Love, I thought outplayed them, not by a huge margin,
but by enough to win the game. And you know,
the Packers, this is probably one of their best games
of the season outside of that that week one went
over the Lions.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
They look like a more complete football team. And I'd
say this, Michael Parsons six and a half sacks on
the year, they sacked Rogers three times in this game,
and maybe that's the difference here. The only other thing
that I would add is you saw in that first
half green Bay trying to go with those deep shots
a whole lot. In that first half, they went to
the quick game. In the second half, you saw twenty
straight completions from Jordan Love. Maybe that's a recipe that
we see duplicated over the coming weeks. Carolina on deck
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now for the Green Bay Packers once again move up
one spot into that fourth position. The Eagles also move
up one spot. They sit at number five. Look, I
don't want to say get right game. I mean, look,
they had an avenge what happened in week number six
to the Giants, But they're heading into the buy are
all things? Like Okay, I mean we've seen an explosive
passing game. We've also now seen Sake want to get
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back on track with another monster game against the Giants.
Like can we finally just say hey, Like, let's put
the drama aside. They got a comfortable lead in this division.
They're really good.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I think we're almost there, if not there already. Yeah,
I mean, obviously the last couple of weeks have looked good,
a lot better than we expected. You know, the questions
about the offense, what was wrong with Saquon why wasn't
Hurts being able to connect with his receivers and you know,
a game with no Aj Brown, the offense looked great, right,
Saquon Barkley was obviously a huge part of it. Hurts
kept up with his four TD passes. They were very
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good in the red zone. You know, Barkley gets hurt
at the end of the game, but they're on by
It doesn't sound like a serious injury. So this was
kind of the best of all worlds developing here. You
vanquished the team that beat you earlier in the season,
you develop Barkley, you get him going again, the injury
isn't that serious, and the defense ends up taking care
of business when it when it matters. So yeah, again,
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this is if you kind of look back to last
year that first month of the season, Eagles were still
kind of feeling themselves out loss of the Bucks, you know,
low swin over the Saints in New Orleans and really
turned it on after the bye. So I kind of wonder,
even if it's a little later this season, is this
the time where they kind of hit the turbo boosters
and get back into that upper upper echelon where they
were last year. By seasons in of.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All the teams in the NFC, do they have the
highest ceiling?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
They might, you know, obviously Green Bay is really interesting
with if Love plays at his peak and Parsons start dominating,
and you know, the Lions, if they get healthy defensively,
you could certainly make a case for them. But you know,
those are the teams that come to mind right away
when you say that. Obviously the NFC West has a
little something to say about it too, But you know,
there's some teams that have some pretty high ceilings, and
they've got to be one of the top ones.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah. I look at the talent that's on this roster,
both offensive and defense, and I think if we remove
some of the drama, they are one of the scariest teams.
And it looks like their path Giants obviously banked Upskataboo
goes down. We've seen what's happened now with the Commanders.
Hopefully Jayden can get back onto the football field. They
got some problems and Daking Company. We know that there's
some issues there too. One team that has been rolling
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doesn't feel like there's many issues. Bo Nicks. The defense
has been balling out and he is delivering Haymaker after
Haymaker won five straight games. Where do they sit on
the rankings? The answer to that is coming up next.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
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Speaker 3 (10:29):
Still going.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Hey back here on power rankings along with Derek at
Holme Mike am with you. Teams nine through sixteen according
to Eric, no change at nine, ten and eleven. It's
the Bills, the Broncos, and the Patriots. I still can't
believe we're talking about New England as a six and
two football team. More on them in just a moment.
The Chargers at twelve. The Niners drop a spot to thirteen.
We have the Steelers also following one spot there. Four
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and three football team at fourteenth is their position. The
Jacksonville Jaguars at fifteen, and the Houston Sexans that offense
woke up, they move up five spots into the sixteenth position.
All right. The Buffalo Bills, I think is sort of
an interesting team to dissect here because I made reference
to it. We had the two losses, one of them
against a Patriots team where they've typically owned this entire division.
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I think that was a wake up call. Then they
lose the following week. Then it's a bye and then
they beat a Carolina team without their starting quarterback in
Bryce Young. Is it fair to say, like, hey, they're
who we thought they were, especially because we saw from
James Cook, you know, basically over two hundred yards on
the ground. Or are you still a little hesitant to say, hey,
they're gonna be able to handle business against that twos
team on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah. Obviously they've had a good sort of regular season
record against the Chiefs and they probably know how much
this game means. And look forty to nine. You're never
going to really complain with the final like that, especially
when James Cook is finding this much green when you
can't see another panther in the screen, usually a good
sign for the running back. And you know, they kept
giving them the ball. He could have had three hundred
yards if it was a closer game. So that was
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a terrific development. The offensive line really kind of dominating
up front. Still want to see a little bit more
crisp execution offensively. It's you know it's going to come
at some point. I suspect do they have the horses
at receiver. I don't know. But the big question on
defense for them now at Oliver's injury. I think that's
the big one. His peck injury is going to be
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a concern. Don't know if he's out for the year,
but it's certainly going to be out for a while.
Stings too, just because you get Larry Ogunjobi back, you
get Michael Hoyt back. He had a big game Sunday.
It felt like that defensive line was really kind of
coming together. Now all of a sudden they have one
of their best players out, so still kind of pumping
the brakes slightly, but a win over the Chiefs next
week could obviously flip that pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I cannot wait to see if because if that does happen,
where you end up putting case and where you put
Buffalo I think is going to be one of those interesting,
oh yeah wories. I'll be reading it Monday night, super late,
while you're sleeping on the couch. Sheet Again, it's time
for her the Team of the Week. It's presented by
Truest at number ten. It's a Broncos squad. You could
say what you want. I love what this team does offensively,
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you know, I know there's been a little bit of
some hiccups and some roller coaster moments for him. But
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that Bonnicks
has got to figure it out, and we'll have it
figured out the rest of the way. I think the
most impressive thing that we saw from this win. I
loved Dak and what this offense has been doing for
the Cowboys erk like they shut them down now all
of a sudden, I take a step back and say,
all right, I know Denvers lost a couple games, those
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are walk off field goals late could have gone the
other way. This to me is one of the best
teams in the NFL, and I'm almost surprised. I know
you have them tenth, but I think there's an argument
they could have even been a little bit higher.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, I mean there are a lot of teams in
this range, right, the Bills could certainly rise New England
and Denver. I mean, obviously, we've, like you said, we've
seen games where they've had some early hiccups. And when
both threw that interception on the third play of the game,
I went, oh, another slow start, but they quickly ended
that talk. I mean, I think touchdowns and four of
their next five drives, and you know, Nicks had his
best game.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
RJ.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Harvey had his best game. Had the touchdown receiving right there.
Also had two rushing, one from a wow well kat
and one just a clean forty yard run around the end,
So you know they're finding more ways to get him involved.
You know, Courtland Sutton did have the touchdown drop and
he caught a beautiful one later. This was as close
to perfect execution for this team this season, so great
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on both sides of the ball. Big worry though with
Patrick Certan he missed half the game. He's going to
miss some time to with that peck injury. You see
him kind of flexing there right now. Riley Moss has
been picked on, there's no doubt about it, so that
pass rush and the other defenders on the field have
to really kind of do their job. Chris Abrams Drain
likely to take the starting job there, and you know
that's why they drafted Jade Baron in round one, just
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to have more depth. I think on that side of
the ball, their defense was believed to be the unit
that was going to carry them while the offense kind
of matured and reached a peak performance.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The nixt touchdown is Sutton. I don't know if he
could have placed the ball better. What a beautiful ball
that bow Knicks was able to throw there. Nick's not
only their young quarterback having success at number eleven. Patriots
Drake may I keep hearing his name being sprinkled into
that MVP conversation. I don't know if I'm quite ready
to go there. He's having a great year. I mentioned
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this before, with the Chiefs one of two teams in
the NFL top five offense, top five defense, it's this
Patriots team that's there as well. I couldn't help but
notice on your article on NFL dot com with regard
to these power rankings, you mentioning a softer schedule for
the Patriots. I know you're doing some schedule watching while
you're tracking with this team and what every team can
do in the league. How important is that is you
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project out on where this team might finish this year.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, early in the year we looked at the schedules
and the strength of schedule based on the projected wins,
not necessarily last year's win percentage, and he said, man,
the Patriots have some games they can win forty nine
ers two and it's holding up with New England. They
have a very very favorable schedule. Their nine remaining opponents
have a win percentage of three sixty two. No other
team is below four hundreds, So that tells you quite
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a bit. Even with the Ravens on this schedule expected
to be much better than their record indicates. This is
a team the offense is humming. Yeah, le Garrett did
cause some problems four five sacks. They had six total
as a team. But the big pass plays May's legs,
He's really used them every single game, and the increased
improvement of the New England defense. Maybe not the three
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best teams they faced the last three weeks since Buffalo,
but still you're seeing better execution on that side of
the ball, and uh, you know, I can't wait to
see how they match up with teams like Tampa Bay
and Baltimore, some of the better teams left on their schedule.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Only thing I'll throw out there with regard to this
Patriots team offensive line play Drake May. I feel like
he's been getting beat up a little bit. Just a
storyline to watch as the season progresses over the next
few weeks. Time for power Moves. It's presented by Energizer,
moving up five spots into the twelfth position. We got
a Chargers team. Do you want to talk Justin Herbert
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on the football field or all the posts on social
media with his girlfriends at Madison Beer that's the girlfriend's name.
I feel like they're everywhere, Lakers game, Halloween costumes. I
like this is a different side of Justin. I've known
him since he was out all It's kind of cool
to see like having some fun in real life. And
clearly when his team's healthy, you get to all back
into the lineup like this team's dangerous all of a
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sudden again.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Absolutely, And what I love about Justin is after a
win he'll use a little of that subtle sarcasm too,
he says, bright guy. You know you remember the Oregon
dais he was studying like molecular biology or whatever, but
now he's studying football. Three ozho one. It feels like
he's taking a big step this year, even with that
little lull and you know, taking some hits and making
some interceptions, but with Aronde Gatston really breaking out the
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last couple of games, he looks like Antonio Gates. I
mean this is the second coming almost. He's been really impressive.
We know, Lad McConkie can do it, you know. I
mean they have veteran receivers too. It was a really
smart performance from him and a really sharp one from
the offense. I mean, Camanie Vaidale helped obviously help move
the chains. Joe All coming back on the on the
offensive line was absolutely terrific, and you know, even if
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it wasn't a perfect night for him, the execution overall
was much better. Herb had clean pockets and boy, when
he's like that, I mean, when they give him time
to operate, this is a really tough team. I am
worried about Derwin James Tarheb's still both injured on defense.
That's probably the concern of the team. And it's too
bad because this last performance against the Vikings one of
their best of the season. So we'll see how they
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hold up after that. I mean, no division games till
after the bye, so they got a little time to
kind of get right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I know, we got to get to Texans real quick.
Just give me one team name a Broncos, Chargers and
Chiefs right now in this division? Who takes it?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I still go Chiefs. I think they're they're the favorites
until they're not.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You know, it's trying to bait you a little bit.
I just wanted to see if you would lean towards
in one of those still other squads. It's gonna be
a hell of a race down the stretch here all
of these teams, six and two, five and three, five
and three, for all of those squads. Meanwhile, the Texans,
they're at seventeen. I'm doing the pregame show game day
preview on Sunday. Steve White is telling me, Hey, like
this offense issues issues issues. Boy. I texted him a
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couple of minutes into that game. I said, hey, I
think they heard you. Euston's offense looked normal against CJ.
Stroud looked like the guy that I saw a couple
of years ago. Can we say, like, hey, this is
a launching pad for what could still be for a
team that's got one of more dangerous defenses in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, I mean, you know, the first quarter of the season,
first third of the season, we're bemoaning the fact that
they have this amazing statistical defense right it ranks up
there amongst the best in the league. They might be
pound for pound the best defense, but when the offense
wasn't getting it done. It reflected in the record. Now
they're starting to win some games because the run game
is going, the offensive line is blocking better, the play
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action game is open up, and Stroud has started to
play more like he did for the majority of his
rookie year. Then I would say that, you know, he
did for long stretches last year. It was a little disappointing.
Things looked more disjointed, the play calling wasn't great. So
you know, everything is kind of coming together. I credit
Demiko Ryans for not letting this team get down when
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the losses started piling out, because he knew he had
a good football team. And even and you know, with
some setbacks along the way, even the Seattle game comes
to mind, this team can hang with virtually anybody, especially
in the AFC side, where that defense can slow down
some of those great quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Find out if they're real. Against the Broncos. By the way,
well done, because I haven't heard too many people talk
about Demiko, and I actually think it's a really good point.
The way this season was playing, it almost felt like
it could spiral out of control. That was an important
win against a team that we feel is pretty good.
In the San Francisco forty nine ers. There's one team
in particular that I think it's pretty good, but they
only got two wins on the season. Apparently they're still
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the favorite to go and win the division. I swear
I'm not lying. Where the Ravens sit in the power
rankings is coming up next? Got here on power rankings,
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we got team seventeen through twenty four. The Chicago Bears
dropped in three spots. They had one four straight games,
had some issues on Sunday. The Commander's falling two spots
at eighteen, the Ravens at nineteen, the Falcons what's going
on with that squad at twenty, Carolina twenty one, The
Dallas Cowboy is stropping two spots to twenty two, the
Vikings once again, Jaj McCarthy will get the start this week,
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and we got the Arizona Cardinals sitting at twenty four.
All Right, what am I supposed to make of what
I'm watching? Offensively from the Bears, I know you're in
that city. I'm sure talk radio is buzzing about this. Dude.
It feels like a real rollercoaster.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Here, it does. Yeah, I mean, everyone wanted to know
how would Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson work together. And
that interception was obviously the kind of the backbreaker, if
you will, and you saw the reaction from Johnson didn't
love it. And you know, the reality is that Caleb
had a tough game. I mean, they didn't execute in
the red zone the first two drives. He had a
couple grounding calls in the first half. You know, there
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were some big pass plays, but combine that with a
soso running game performance really kind of driven the team
recent games. It's not going to add up, you know,
and the defense was short, some members weren't taking the
football away the way they have and a lot of
other wins and that's how you lose to you know,
Lamar Jackson is not out there, and you still find
a way to lose against a team that hadn't won
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very much this year. So missed opportunity for Chicago after
the four wins. Highly disappointing, but you know, again they've
helped themselves throughout the course of the season. Now the
question is how does Caleb and Ben Johnson get back
on track.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Mentioned losing that game without a Lamar Jackson out on
the football field, Kudos to Tyler Huntley Snoop looked like
one of the better backups in the NFL. Didn't make
a whole lot of mistakes in that win. They move
up four spots in the power rankings. They're sitting at
two and five. FanDuel says, there's still the favorites in
that division. How much are you buying that a two
win football team at this point still could win this thing?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, look, I understand. You know, maybe some Steelers fans
out there are denying that the Ravens could win the division,
and a couple of weeks ago it felt like Pittsburgh
had a hammer lock on that thing. But yeah, you
see the way they're playing much much, much better defensively
against the Rams, and then over the bye against the
Bears to Lamar Jackson, expected back Derek Henry had some
okay run Sunday. You're starting to re see the receiver's day.
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Flowers get more involved, So the pieces are all there.
Tyler Loop's been hitting field goals like crazy this year.
So all three phases have promising qualities to them, and
you could see them with this schedule getting back to
five and five before November's at which is crazy to
say but it's the reality, and I think they're coming.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm just pulling up the box score here as we
focus our attention on the Atlanta Falcons. I just wanted
to confirm this done carries for Jean Robinson. He had
three catches in this game. What in the world is
going on? Like it isn't shouldn't he just be the
focal player? I mean, Kirk Cousins was starting. I thought
there was going to be a monster game for the
running back.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Absolutely I figured so too. I mean, if anybody figured
that the Miami Dolphins would outrush the Atlanta Falcons in
Atlanta by almost one hundred yards, boy, kudos to you.
I never could have predicted that in my life. But
it was like a reversal of fortune. The Dolphins went
out there and established a line of scrimmage, They moved
people off the line, they ran the ball and then
play action shots, and that very good Falcons defense was
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beat up. On the other side, Bijon had the early fumble.
They were stacking the box. They were daring Kirk Cousins
to beat them. He couldn't do it. And you know,
really disappointing game all around. If they already hopes for
Kirk to get traded or anything, but Falcons all of
a sudden, you know, back to kind of square one,
if you will. After that, Big Bills win. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Now, match up on the road against the Patriots teams
twenty five through thirty two. Cincinnati, what happened there at
twenty five, the Dolphins at twenty six. The Giants drop
a spot. Nope, cam scad being the rest of the season,
most likely because they had dislocated ankle. We got the
Browns at twenty eight, the Raiders at twenty nine, the
Saints Tyler Schuck will get the starts, according to Ian Rappaport,
against the Rams, the Jets at thirty one, and the
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Titans at thirty two. Can we just love up real quick?
Aaron Glenn, I mean, win number one. I just wanted
to see him dance.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Nick Mangold's death was a shock to Jets community. Justin
Fields had the week from hell, and they went out
there and won an incredible game. Good for them and
good for them. Get off the the schneid.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I would imagine it's Justin Fields the rest of the way.
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
So brand new edition of NFL Power Rankings we are
presented by Energizer Long with Eric at home, I am
with you. We go through the top teams in the NFL. Actually,
we're going through all the teams in the NFL. For
complete analysis of all thirty two, check out NFL dot com.
Uric I had asked you, Hey, did you watch the
World Series game before we started recording. He said, no,
Monday night was over. I get home and I immediately
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go to my inbox because I usually get a preview
of what your rankings are going to be, and you
would say, hey, like the game is over. I fell
asleep on the couch and I don't want to get
Tami here. Was that by design?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Though?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Like were you told to sleep on the couch.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It happens more often than I probably should let it happen. Right,
I'll start watching TV. I'll get into something interesting next thing,
and I wake up. It's, you know, quarter to two
in the morning, and I'm thinking I got to be
up in about four hours. Here, this isn't very good,
but the alert for the game came off right when
I woke up, so I didn't realize quite how long
had gone.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We got off the set on Monday Night Football. On
our postgame show, our researcher said, hey, it's in the
tenth inning. It was a long one, I think for
all sports fans. When I was reading our article, by
the way, while the game was going on, I did
notice that you called the rankings semi chalking, and I
think that's maybe the best way to describe really the
top here. Let's go through one through eight, and you
got the Detroit Lions sitting at one, the Colts at two,
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and the Chiefs at three. So no change here. The
Packers move up one spot to the fourth position. Philadelphia Seattle.
We got the Rams at seven and Tampa Bay sitting
at eight. Sitting at that six and two record, I
think we should focus in on the Colts. They feel
like a very, very complete team, and I guess it
shouldn't surprise Well, maybe it surprises some people, but it
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shouldn't surprise us right now, considering how these pieces are
all working together. Are we finally at a point where
we just say, hey, like this is legit? And they
had a real chance to get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, I kind of slow played them a little bit, Mike.
You know, it was just sort of holding back. I
wanted to see a bigger body of work, maybe some
better competition. But I've seen enough to say, hey, if
this team stays relatively intact through the rest of the season,
they are gonna be a problem. Okay, Daniel Jones has
played very well. It didn't have a great first half Sunday,
but eventually receivers came open, and they have so many
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guys they can throw to. And of course the backbone
of that offense too, Jonathan Taylor, and really that offensive
line too. I think we should mention them, Quenton Nelson,
guys like Bernard Raymond Tanner, BORDERLINI getting out on these
runs and these screens and everything. And boy, when you
can take a punt in your territory and the other
team's not going for it, what do you do? You
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hand off to Jonathan Taylor takes at eighty yards and
that's just how explosive. They've been a little worried about
the defense, Mike. I mean, they've given up some yards
this year, there's no doubt, but that pass rush can
cover some of it. And they're always seemingly playing with leads,
which really helps. I think.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I think there's gonna be a really interesting conversation about
how to handle Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson in this offseason.
Got to imagine this team doesn't have much of choice.
They're gonna have to pay Daniel Jones just toased off
of his performance this year, and Jonathan Taylor obviously has
been rolling to number three. Right now, we got a
Kansas City Chief squad that is all of a sudden
looking like one of the most complete teams in the NFL.
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They're one of two squads sitting in the top five
of total offense and defense. I'll tell you who that
other team is a little bit later when we talk
about them. Are you like, we're not worried about that
that O and two start, right Like, we're officially back
with Kansas City being one of the premier teams in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah. The O and two starts certainly had me kind
of pause in a little bit. The loss to Jacksonville.
Everybody was sort of questioning, hey, is this sort of
shades of what we saw last year coming to roost? Right?
All those close games that they won, could have lost
several This one, the Monday night game, I thought was
a really interesting test. The Commanders brought everything they had,
had more energy early. It was a tie game, and
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then what happened in the third quarter The Chiefs turned
their lights out, and Mike again just kind of comparing
it to the last couple of years worth the Chiefs teams.
I know they're different, but the corps the same, Andy Reid,
Patrick Mahomes, Driving, Kelsey all the rest. They now have
the explosiveness to turn your lights out fast. I don't
think they had that as readily available to them the
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last couple of seasons. But now Rashi Rice is in
the lineup, Xavier Worthy healthy, you still have Marquise Brown.
Obviously Kelsey could have a big night. He had the
drop to catch that win Ford interception. You know, those
things happened. But the defense too, has really kind of
turned it on the last few games. So look, they
can play a poor half or so so half, come
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back and beat a team like the Commanders with ease,
and I think that's a pretty good sign of their health.
Right now.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What do you make of this game on Sunday against Buffalo,
Because this is that you know, before the season, you'd
say mussy television. Now that we're in the season, I'm
still saying it's mussy TV.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It is right, And obviously you can kind of throw
the records out a little bit or whoever's playing the
best at the time, given that Buffalo has had a
little bit more success in the regular season meetings. Obviously
Kansas City more in the playoff meetings. So who knows
right final season at high these teams pretty know each
other pretty well. Bill's had a get right game last week,
but this casey defense and what they're doing on offense
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could be tough to stop. Yeah, good to.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
See Buffalo sort of get their minds right. It was
back to back losses by and then they handle business
against the Carolina team that didn't have Bryce Young. But
a win is a win all right, time for future champions.
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The Detroit Lions not far behind plus one twenty five.
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I think you make an argument Detroit's got one of
the top two or three offenses in the league feel
good about that defense when they're healthy. The Bears had
a four game winning streak that got snapped. They're in
that third position plus twenty two hundred and then a
plus forty five hundred the Minnesota Vikings, who will be
playing JJ McCarthy now that Carson Wentz is no longer healthy,
although I think JJ was ready and he was going
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to get that job back, all right. The Packers sit
at number four right now. You wrote on your article
that's on NFL dot com with regard of these power rankings,
Jordan Love, that's been game that you've seen. I actually
think it's a really positive sign that in a big moment,
you could say, hey, regular season, but it's big when
it's Aaron Rodgers on the other side, like we it's
his primetime game Sunday Night Football. He played his best
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game that you think you might have seen from him.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, I mean I heard a lot of people talking about, oh,
what a great second half he had. I thought he
played a great four quarters, right that he couldn't really
generate the kind of points they wanted early, and we've
seen that from the Packers. Maybe a little bit slower
starting or they have one good drive early and then
kind of stall out, But you know, Love seemed to
get better as the game went on. You found these
plays with Kraft, who missed a chunk of this game
(06:40):
with injury, but you know he did outstanding. Obviously, Watson
back in the lineup that helps didn't really have much
run game going, but never truly felt threatened. Even when
they were down nineteen to fourteen. It felt like the
momentum was on their side. Some of that you credit
the Green Bay defense. Certainly, some of that you obviously
credit the offense, but you're right as far as big
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moments go, playoff atmosphere. Pittsburgh team that's had some success
this year, the specter of Rogers, whatever you want to say,
Jordan Love, I thought outplayed them, not by a huge margin,
but by enough to win the game. And you know,
the Packers, this is probably one of their best games
of the season outside of that that week one went
over the Lions.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
They look like a more complete football team. And I'd
say this, Michael Parsons six and a half sacks on
the year, they sacked Rogers three times in this game,
and maybe that's the difference here. The only other thing
that I would add is you saw in that first
half green Bay trying to go with those deep shots
a whole lot. In that first half, they went to
the quick game. In the second half, you saw twenty
straight completions from Jordan Love. Maybe that's a recipe that
we see duplicated over the coming weeks. Carolina on deck
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now for the Green Bay Packers once again move up
one spot into that fourth position. The Eagles also move
up one spot. They sit at number five. Look, I
don't want to say get right game. I mean, look,
they had an avenge what happened in week number six
to the Giants, But they're heading into the buy are
all things? Like Okay, I mean we've seen an explosive
passing game. We've also now seen Sake want to get
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back on track with another monster game against the Giants.
Like can we finally just say hey, Like, let's put
the drama aside. They got a comfortable lead in this division.
They're really good.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I think we're almost there, if not there already. Yeah,
I mean, obviously the last couple of weeks have looked good,
a lot better than we expected. You know, the questions
about the offense, what was wrong with Saquon why wasn't
Hurts being able to connect with his receivers and you know,
a game with no Aj Brown, the offense looked great, right,
Saquon Barkley was obviously a huge part of it. Hurts
kept up with his four TD passes. They were very
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good in the red zone. You know, Barkley gets hurt
at the end of the game, but they're on by
It doesn't sound like a serious injury. So this was
kind of the best of all worlds developing here. You
vanquished the team that beat you earlier in the season,
you develop Barkley, you get him going again, the injury
isn't that serious, and the defense ends up taking care
of business when it when it matters. So yeah, again,
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this is if you kind of look back to last
year that first month of the season, Eagles were still
kind of feeling themselves out loss of the Bucks, you know,
low swin over the Saints in New Orleans and really
turned it on after the bye. So I kind of wonder,
even if it's a little later this season, is this
the time where they kind of hit the turbo boosters
and get back into that upper upper echelon where they
were last year. By seasons in of.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All the teams in the NFC, do they have the
highest ceiling?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
They might, you know, obviously Green Bay is really interesting
with if Love plays at his peak and Parsons start dominating,
and you know, the Lions, if they get healthy defensively,
you could certainly make a case for them. But you know,
those are the teams that come to mind right away
when you say that. Obviously the NFC West has a
little something to say about it too, But you know,
there's some teams that have some pretty high ceilings, and
they've got to be one of the top ones.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah. I look at the talent that's on this roster,
both offensive and defense, and I think if we remove
some of the drama, they are one of the scariest teams.
And it looks like their path Giants obviously banked Upskataboo
goes down. We've seen what's happened now with the Commanders.
Hopefully Jayden can get back onto the football field. They
got some problems and Daking Company. We know that there's
some issues there too. One team that has been rolling
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doesn't feel like there's many issues. Bo Nicks. The defense
has been balling out and he is delivering Haymaker after
Haymaker won five straight games. Where do they sit on
the rankings? The answer to that is coming up next.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
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Speaker 3 (10:29):
Still going.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Hey back here on power rankings along with Derek at
Holme Mike am with you. Teams nine through sixteen according
to Eric, no change at nine, ten and eleven. It's
the Bills, the Broncos, and the Patriots. I still can't
believe we're talking about New England as a six and
two football team. More on them in just a moment.
The Chargers at twelve. The Niners drop a spot to thirteen.
We have the Steelers also following one spot there. Four
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and three football team at fourteenth is their position. The
Jacksonville Jaguars at fifteen, and the Houston Sexans that offense
woke up, they move up five spots into the sixteenth position.
All right. The Buffalo Bills, I think is sort of
an interesting team to dissect here because I made reference
to it. We had the two losses, one of them
against a Patriots team where they've typically owned this entire division.
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I think that was a wake up call. Then they
lose the following week. Then it's a bye and then
they beat a Carolina team without their starting quarterback in
Bryce Young. Is it fair to say, like, hey, they're
who we thought they were, especially because we saw from
James Cook, you know, basically over two hundred yards on
the ground. Or are you still a little hesitant to say, hey,
they're gonna be able to handle business against that twos
team on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah. Obviously they've had a good sort of regular season
record against the Chiefs and they probably know how much
this game means. And look forty to nine. You're never
going to really complain with the final like that, especially
when James Cook is finding this much green when you
can't see another panther in the screen, usually a good
sign for the running back. And you know, they kept
giving them the ball. He could have had three hundred
yards if it was a closer game. So that was
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a terrific development. The offensive line really kind of dominating
up front. Still want to see a little bit more
crisp execution offensively. It's you know it's going to come
at some point. I suspect do they have the horses
at receiver. I don't know. But the big question on
defense for them now at Oliver's injury. I think that's
the big one. His peck injury is going to be
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a concern. Don't know if he's out for the year,
but it's certainly going to be out for a while.
Stings too, just because you get Larry Ogunjobi back, you
get Michael Hoyt back. He had a big game Sunday.
It felt like that defensive line was really kind of
coming together. Now all of a sudden they have one
of their best players out, so still kind of pumping
the brakes slightly, but a win over the Chiefs next
week could obviously flip that pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I cannot wait to see if because if that does happen,
where you end up putting case and where you put
Buffalo I think is going to be one of those interesting,
oh yeah wories. I'll be reading it Monday night, super late,
while you're sleeping on the couch. Sheet Again, it's time
for her the Team of the Week. It's presented by
Truest at number ten. It's a Broncos squad. You could
say what you want. I love what this team does offensively,
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you know, I know there's been a little bit of
some hiccups and some roller coaster moments for him. But
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that Bonnicks
has got to figure it out, and we'll have it
figured out the rest of the way. I think the
most impressive thing that we saw from this win. I
loved Dak and what this offense has been doing for
the Cowboys erk like they shut them down now all
of a sudden, I take a step back and say,
all right, I know Denvers lost a couple games, those
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are walk off field goals late could have gone the
other way. This to me is one of the best
teams in the NFL, and I'm almost surprised. I know
you have them tenth, but I think there's an argument
they could have even been a little bit higher.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, I mean there are a lot of teams in
this range, right, the Bills could certainly rise New England
and Denver. I mean, obviously, we've, like you said, we've
seen games where they've had some early hiccups. And when
both threw that interception on the third play of the game,
I went, oh, another slow start, but they quickly ended
that talk. I mean, I think touchdowns and four of
their next five drives, and you know, Nicks had his
best game.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
RJ.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Harvey had his best game. Had the touchdown receiving right there.
Also had two rushing, one from a wow well kat
and one just a clean forty yard run around the end,
So you know they're finding more ways to get him involved.
You know, Courtland Sutton did have the touchdown drop and
he caught a beautiful one later. This was as close
to perfect execution for this team this season, so great
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on both sides of the ball. Big worry though with
Patrick Certan he missed half the game. He's going to
miss some time to with that peck injury. You see
him kind of flexing there right now. Riley Moss has
been picked on, there's no doubt about it, so that
pass rush and the other defenders on the field have
to really kind of do their job. Chris Abrams Drain
likely to take the starting job there, and you know
that's why they drafted Jade Baron in round one, just
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to have more depth. I think on that side of
the ball, their defense was believed to be the unit
that was going to carry them while the offense kind
of matured and reached a peak performance.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The nixt touchdown is Sutton. I don't know if he
could have placed the ball better. What a beautiful ball
that bow Knicks was able to throw there. Nick's not
only their young quarterback having success at number eleven. Patriots
Drake may I keep hearing his name being sprinkled into
that MVP conversation. I don't know if I'm quite ready
to go there. He's having a great year. I mentioned
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this before, with the Chiefs one of two teams in
the NFL top five offense, top five defense, it's this
Patriots team that's there as well. I couldn't help but
notice on your article on NFL dot com with regard
to these power rankings, you mentioning a softer schedule for
the Patriots. I know you're doing some schedule watching while
you're tracking with this team and what every team can
do in the league. How important is that is you
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project out on where this team might finish this year.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, early in the year we looked at the schedules
and the strength of schedule based on the projected wins,
not necessarily last year's win percentage, and he said, man,
the Patriots have some games they can win forty nine
ers two and it's holding up with New England. They
have a very very favorable schedule. Their nine remaining opponents
have a win percentage of three sixty two. No other
team is below four hundreds, So that tells you quite
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a bit. Even with the Ravens on this schedule expected
to be much better than their record indicates. This is
a team the offense is humming. Yeah, le Garrett did
cause some problems four five sacks. They had six total
as a team. But the big pass plays May's legs,
He's really used them every single game, and the increased
improvement of the New England defense. Maybe not the three
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best teams they faced the last three weeks since Buffalo,
but still you're seeing better execution on that side of
the ball, and uh, you know, I can't wait to
see how they match up with teams like Tampa Bay
and Baltimore, some of the better teams left on their schedule.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Only thing I'll throw out there with regard to this
Patriots team offensive line play Drake May. I feel like
he's been getting beat up a little bit. Just a
storyline to watch as the season progresses over the next
few weeks. Time for power Moves. It's presented by Energizer,
moving up five spots into the twelfth position. We got
a Chargers team. Do you want to talk Justin Herbert
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on the football field or all the posts on social
media with his girlfriends at Madison Beer that's the girlfriend's name.
I feel like they're everywhere, Lakers game, Halloween costumes. I
like this is a different side of Justin. I've known
him since he was out all It's kind of cool
to see like having some fun in real life. And
clearly when his team's healthy, you get to all back
into the lineup like this team's dangerous all of a
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sudden again.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Absolutely, And what I love about Justin is after a
win he'll use a little of that subtle sarcasm too,
he says, bright guy. You know you remember the Oregon
dais he was studying like molecular biology or whatever, but
now he's studying football. Three ozho one. It feels like
he's taking a big step this year, even with that
little lull and you know, taking some hits and making
some interceptions, but with Aronde Gatston really breaking out the
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last couple of games, he looks like Antonio Gates. I
mean this is the second coming almost. He's been really impressive.
We know, Lad McConkie can do it, you know. I
mean they have veteran receivers too. It was a really
smart performance from him and a really sharp one from
the offense. I mean, Camanie Vaidale helped obviously help move
the chains. Joe All coming back on the on the
offensive line was absolutely terrific, and you know, even if
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it wasn't a perfect night for him, the execution overall
was much better. Herb had clean pockets and boy, when
he's like that, I mean, when they give him time
to operate, this is a really tough team. I am
worried about Derwin James Tarheb's still both injured on defense.
That's probably the concern of the team. And it's too
bad because this last performance against the Vikings one of
their best of the season. So we'll see how they
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hold up after that. I mean, no division games till
after the bye, so they got a little time to
kind of get right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I know, we got to get to Texans real quick.
Just give me one team name a Broncos, Chargers and
Chiefs right now in this division? Who takes it?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I still go Chiefs. I think they're they're the favorites
until they're not.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You know, it's trying to bait you a little bit.
I just wanted to see if you would lean towards
in one of those still other squads. It's gonna be
a hell of a race down the stretch here all
of these teams, six and two, five and three, five
and three, for all of those squads. Meanwhile, the Texans,
they're at seventeen. I'm doing the pregame show game day
preview on Sunday. Steve White is telling me, Hey, like
this offense issues issues issues. Boy. I texted him a
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couple of minutes into that game. I said, hey, I
think they heard you. Euston's offense looked normal against CJ.
Stroud looked like the guy that I saw a couple
of years ago. Can we say, like, hey, this is
a launching pad for what could still be for a
team that's got one of more dangerous defenses in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, I mean, you know, the first quarter of the season,
first third of the season, we're bemoaning the fact that
they have this amazing statistical defense right it ranks up
there amongst the best in the league. They might be
pound for pound the best defense, but when the offense
wasn't getting it done. It reflected in the record. Now
they're starting to win some games because the run game
is going, the offensive line is blocking better, the play
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action game is open up, and Stroud has started to
play more like he did for the majority of his
rookie year. Then I would say that, you know, he
did for long stretches last year. It was a little disappointing.
Things looked more disjointed, the play calling wasn't great. So
you know, everything is kind of coming together. I credit
Demiko Ryans for not letting this team get down when
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the losses started piling out, because he knew he had
a good football team. And even and you know, with
some setbacks along the way, even the Seattle game comes
to mind, this team can hang with virtually anybody, especially
in the AFC side, where that defense can slow down
some of those great quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Find out if they're real. Against the Broncos. By the way,
well done, because I haven't heard too many people talk
about Demiko, and I actually think it's a really good point.
The way this season was playing, it almost felt like
it could spiral out of control. That was an important
win against a team that we feel is pretty good.
In the San Francisco forty nine ers. There's one team
in particular that I think it's pretty good, but they
only got two wins on the season. Apparently they're still
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the favorite to go and win the division. I swear
I'm not lying. Where the Ravens sit in the power
rankings is coming up next? Got here on power rankings,
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we got team seventeen through twenty four. The Chicago Bears
dropped in three spots. They had one four straight games,
had some issues on Sunday. The Commander's falling two spots
at eighteen, the Ravens at nineteen, the Falcons what's going
on with that squad at twenty, Carolina twenty one, The
Dallas Cowboy is stropping two spots to twenty two, the
Vikings once again, Jaj McCarthy will get the start this week,
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and we got the Arizona Cardinals sitting at twenty four.
All Right, what am I supposed to make of what
I'm watching? Offensively from the Bears, I know you're in
that city. I'm sure talk radio is buzzing about this. Dude.
It feels like a real rollercoaster.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Here, it does. Yeah, I mean, everyone wanted to know
how would Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson work together. And
that interception was obviously the kind of the backbreaker, if
you will, and you saw the reaction from Johnson didn't
love it. And you know, the reality is that Caleb
had a tough game. I mean, they didn't execute in
the red zone the first two drives. He had a
couple grounding calls in the first half. You know, there
(21:53):
were some big pass plays, but combine that with a
soso running game performance really kind of driven the team
recent games. It's not going to add up, you know,
and the defense was short, some members weren't taking the
football away the way they have and a lot of
other wins and that's how you lose to you know,
Lamar Jackson is not out there, and you still find
a way to lose against a team that hadn't won
(22:15):
very much this year. So missed opportunity for Chicago after
the four wins. Highly disappointing, but you know, again they've
helped themselves throughout the course of the season. Now the
question is how does Caleb and Ben Johnson get back
on track.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Mentioned losing that game without a Lamar Jackson out on
the football field, Kudos to Tyler Huntley Snoop looked like
one of the better backups in the NFL. Didn't make
a whole lot of mistakes in that win. They move
up four spots in the power rankings. They're sitting at
two and five. FanDuel says, there's still the favorites in
that division. How much are you buying that a two
win football team at this point still could win this thing?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, look, I understand. You know, maybe some Steelers fans
out there are denying that the Ravens could win the division,
and a couple of weeks ago it felt like Pittsburgh
had a hammer lock on that thing. But yeah, you
see the way they're playing much much, much better defensively
against the Rams, and then over the bye against the
Bears to Lamar Jackson, expected back Derek Henry had some
okay run Sunday. You're starting to re see the receiver's day.
(23:10):
Flowers get more involved, So the pieces are all there.
Tyler Loop's been hitting field goals like crazy this year.
So all three phases have promising qualities to them, and
you could see them with this schedule getting back to
five and five before November's at which is crazy to
say but it's the reality, and I think they're coming.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm just pulling up the box score here as we
focus our attention on the Atlanta Falcons. I just wanted
to confirm this done carries for Jean Robinson. He had
three catches in this game. What in the world is
going on? Like it isn't shouldn't he just be the
focal player? I mean, Kirk Cousins was starting. I thought
there was going to be a monster game for the
running back.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Absolutely I figured so too. I mean, if anybody figured
that the Miami Dolphins would outrush the Atlanta Falcons in
Atlanta by almost one hundred yards, boy, kudos to you.
I never could have predicted that in my life. But
it was like a reversal of fortune. The Dolphins went
out there and established a line of scrimmage, They moved
people off the line, they ran the ball and then
play action shots, and that very good Falcons defense was
(24:08):
beat up. On the other side, Bijon had the early fumble.
They were stacking the box. They were daring Kirk Cousins
to beat them. He couldn't do it. And you know,
really disappointing game all around. If they already hopes for
Kirk to get traded or anything, but Falcons all of
a sudden, you know, back to kind of square one,
if you will. After that, Big Bills win. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Now, match up on the road against the Patriots teams
twenty five through thirty two. Cincinnati, what happened there at
twenty five, the Dolphins at twenty six. The Giants drop
a spot. Nope, cam scad being the rest of the season,
most likely because they had dislocated ankle. We got the
Browns at twenty eight, the Raiders at twenty nine, the
Saints Tyler Schuck will get the starts, according to Ian Rappaport,
against the Rams, the Jets at thirty one, and the
(24:45):
Titans at thirty two. Can we just love up real quick?
Aaron Glenn, I mean, win number one. I just wanted
to see him dance.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Nick Mangold's death was a shock to Jets community. Justin
Fields had the week from hell, and they went out
there and won an incredible game. Good for them and
good for them. Get off the the schneid.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I would imagine it's Justin Fields the rest of the way.
Always appreciate you guys watching Power rankings.
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